History FanFic / ShinraHighSOLDIER

* InformedAbility: At 15-16, Julia's academic tests show that she could jump directly into 12th grade, despite her spending three years in a mental institution and one as a prostitute in the slums. She is supposed to be a genius student, but the readers never get any proof of her intellectual abilities. In fact, at 22 and heavily pregnant Julia will claim that she does not know what to expect regarding giving birth because her ''parents did not tell her.''

* TheBully: Julia's only stated hobby is trashing preps. On her first day of school, she sees Cloud Strife asleep in class, takes a rubber band and fires a marble at his ''eye''. Reno splashed Aerith from head to toe with ink and sneakily cut off so much of Cloud's hair that he was left with a bald spot.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of SOLDIERs under Hojo's command.

Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two "novels" Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boasting a total of 169 chapters (170 including the epilogue) of meandering plot lines. What starts off seeming as a typical HighSchoolAU turns out to be her attempt to write the history before the story began.

* RonTheDeathEater: So much. Virtually any hero of the story gets trashed for being opposition to Sephiroth. Primarily we have
** [[IdiotBall Cloud The Idiot:]] When she actually manages to lock down a personality for Cloud it's a pathetic, wimpy coward who manages to lose his ID card by getting it stuck between his teeth.
** [[VillainBall Zack The Mysoginist:]] Zack gets turned into a violent, petty, and sexist asshole, who delights in torturing Sephiroth and Julia in anyway he can.
** [[ClassClown Reno The Prankster:]] Depending on whether she likes Reno at the moment, Reno is a clumsy, lazy, idiot who is failing every class, and is known for deadly pranks.
** [[BigBad Hojo The Sadist:]] Hojo goes from an ambitious, amoral scientist to a violent psychopath who delights in torturing anybody he can.
** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Aerith the Friendly Helpful Cheerleader:]] Special recognition goes to Aerith, who is actually portrayed relatively close to canon. The few scenes she gets she's optimistic, smiling, friendly and helpful. For some reason, everybody hates her, and the audience is supposed to understand why.

* BellBentForLeather: Julia loves this trope more than Sephiroth.

[[SelfInsert Julia]] [[GratuitousJapanese Nakahamou]] is a recent transfer student to Shinra High. On her first day, she encounters most of the crew of Final Fantasy, but more importantly, she encounters Sephiroth and [[LoveAtFirstSight falls instantly in love with him.]] Unfortunately for her, Sephiroth ends up in a relationship with [[RomanticFalseLead Laura.]] On top of this, Julia catches the attention of the science teacher [[MadScientist Hojo]] who wants her as part of his new project to build a breed of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Mako-enhanced]] [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers.]] Julia and Sephiroth must sort out their feelings for each other while surviving Hojo's deadly experiments.

* DrivenToSuicide: Laura kills herself after dumping Sephiroth, stating that she doesn't want to live if she can't have him.

Between the ages of 14 and 18(2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two "novels" Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boasting a total of 169 chapters (170 including the epilogue) of meandering plot lines. What starts off seeming as a typical HighSchoolAU turns out to be her attempt to write the history before the story began.

Sephirothslave wrote her two "novels" Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, a total of 169 chapters (170 including the epilogue) of meandering plot lines. What starts off seeming as a typical HighSchoolAU turns out to be her attempt to write the history before the story began.

* AuthorAvatar: Sephirothslave's real name is Julia. Julia's description and artwork makes it clear she is an idealized version of its creator, with more money, power, and [[BuxomIsBetter bigger breasts.]] The character shares the author's hobbies such as martial arts and music, her interest in the occult, her aspirations (being together with Sephiroth, obtaining power, fame and recognition), even the name of her weapons, which Sephirothslave claims to own in real life. Julia's parents and friends also share the names of their real life counterparts. Julia also automatically hates anybody Sephirothslave hates even before they do anything. (Cloud is asleep when she first meets him, and her first encounter with Aerith is just Julia feeling smug that Aerith got hit by an ink balloon).

* RPGMechanicsVerse: A rare atttempt at a serious version. The story references things like MP inventory and levels.

The fiction is well known for several reasons. In addition to its length, convoluted plot and the blatant MarySue qualities of Julia, it is a mouth piece for the [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Jenova Possession Theory]], which claims that Sephiroth was not the true villain of the series, but rather an innocent victim, being controlled and or commanded by [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]]. In addition to this, Sephiroth Slave claims to be an {{Otakukin}}, and that Sephiroth is her astral husband. Finally, it's famous for butchering nearly every character in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', and getting nearly every aspect of the story wrong.

Sephiroth Slave returned to the series to attempt to rewrite it, but gave up after only making superficial changes to the first nine chapters.

A sporking of it in it's entirety, as well as many other fanfics and essays of Sephiroth Slave, can be found [[http://lian-hua.livejournal.com/ here]]

* AuthorAvatar: Sephiroth Slave's real name is Julia. Julia's description and artwork makes it clear she is an idealized version of Sephiroth Slave, with more money, power, and [[BuxomIsBetter bigger breasts.]] Julia also automatically hates anybody Sephiroth Slave hates even before they do anything. (Cloud is asleep when she first meets him, and her first encounter with Aerith is just Julia feeling smug that Aerith got hit by an ink balloon)
* BerserkButton: So many people
** Julia: Any threat or insult to Sephiroth, or implication that she's gay.

* DeathIsCheap: {{Zigzagged}}. Sometimes death is cleaned up by a simple phoenix down, while other times, it's permanent. It makes it very hard to tell how we are supposed to react to a death.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Julia and Sephiroth are big fans of this. In response to being attacked by football players, (even though the football players [[CurbStompBattle lost spectacularly]]) Julia and Sephiroth get revenge by blowing up the football field during a game, openly killing hundreds of spectators in the process.
** During the Wutai arc, Julia tortures both her victims due to minor slights. Gorki, for daring to call Sephiroth a girl, is tortured until she screams, including cutting off both her arms and crushing her legs with Demi. Staniv breaks Julia's katana, so Julia paralyzes her [[EyeScream cuts out her eyeball and forces her to eat it]], and then mutilates her so she can bleed to death.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Despite canon difference in ages and hometowns Sephiroth, Cloud, Rude, Reno, Aerith, Zack, and Yuffie all go to high school together. Meanwhile, all the staff of Shinra are teachers.
* ExpansionPackPast: Julia somehow managed to be a prostitute for a year, and in an insane asylum for three years, given up for adoption, taken in by Tseng, taken back by her birth parents, and skipped a grade all before turning fifteen. Sometime during all this, she managed to obtain several powerful, mastered materia.

* GratuitousJapanese: Towards the beginning, Julia claims that her friends call her Megumi, and sometimes responds with Japanese words like "hai." This quickly drops off though.

* HighSchoolAU: Averted. Although the fic initially comes across as this, Sephiroth Slave intends it to be a prequel to the actual series.

* IForgotICouldFly: Julia often forgets that she's a powerful spell caster in possession of several of the most powerful materia in the world. During the defense of Shinra, she literally remembers that she has it halfway through the second day of being slaughtered by the enemy forces.

* InformedAttribute: Julia is allegedly kind and wise, but she never demonstrates these qualities, instead being overly violent and short-sighted. We're also told that people call her Megumi, but nobody does.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Sephiroth in particular, will overact to any affront to Julia, while ignoring if the same thing happens to somebody he doesn't know. The epitome of this comes from when he hears a report of victim getting beaten to near death while walking home at night through a dark alley. He considers it the victim's fault for being dumb enough to walk through a bad part of town, but upon finding out that it was Julia, chews out Laura for saying the exact thing he was thinking a moment ago.

* RapeAsBackstory: Part of her ExpansionPackPast, her father raped her as part of her training to be a prostitute.
* RomanticFalseLead: Laura is introduced as a rival love interest. She starts off innocent enough, and ends up dating Sephiroth after the two bond in the hospital. However, once Sephiroth Slave bores of the drama, Laura [[HeelFaceTurn suddenly becomes]] [[RonTheDeathEater a conniving, shallow bitch,]] so she can dump Sephiroth, so he can go back to Julia.

* RPGMechanicsVerse: A rare atttempt at a serious version. The story references things like MP and levels.
* ShootTheMessenger: Tseng shoots a messenger who merely reported that Julia, Sephiroth, and Reno should report to Hojo to get new mako injections. He's just injured, but Tseng forbids him from seeking medical attention until he returns to deliver a counter-message to Hojo.

Shinra High doesn't so much end as [[DividedForPublication roll directly into it's sequel]], Shinra SOLDIER. Julia, Sephiroth, and the others have survived Hojo's training and are now rushed into military training to ideally become the new SOLDIER class heroes that Midgar desperately needs. Sephiroth and Julia exceed expectations, quickly ousting General Heidigger and becoming the new [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority General]] and [[NumberTwo Commander]] of the Shinra armies. They then lead Shinra to its rise to power, [[BoringInvincibleHero effortlessly crushing all opposition]] [[CombatPragmatist in the most ruthless ways possible.]]

[[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is one of the most popular Final Fantasy villains of all time. He's [[TheAce an elite soldier,]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds has a tragic story,]] [[{{Bishonen}} and he's very, very pretty.]] But what was his life like before the game began? Before he met Cloud and Zack? The aptly named Sephiroth Slave sets out to tell us.

Sephiroth Slave wrote her two "novels" Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, a total of 169 chapters (170 including the epilogue) of meandering plot lines. What starts off seeming as a typical HighSchoolAU turns out to be her attempt to write the history before the story began.

The fiction is well known for several reasons. In addition to its length, convoluted plot and the blatant MarySue qualities of Julia, it is a mouth piece for the [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Jenova Possession Theory]], which claims that Sephiroth was not the true villain of the series, but rather an innocent victim, being controlled and or commanded by [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]]. In addition to this, Sephiroth Slave claims to be an {{Otakukin}}, and that Sephiroth is her astral husband. Finally, it's famous for butchering nearly every character in [[FinalFantasyVII Final Fantasy Seven]], and getting nearly [[DidNotDoTheResearch every aspect of the story wrong.]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch: In spades, but mostly when it comes to the lore and history of FinalFantasyVII.
** Her knowledge of military training and boot camp is astonishingly bad as well.

* AngstWhatAngst: Julia's tragic past or present will be instantly forgotten whenever the plot needs to advance.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The series runs on it. In addition to the entries under DracoInLeatherPants and RonTheDeathEater, the entire series was written to defend the concept of the Jenova Possession Theory.

* DesignatedHero: Julia and Sephiroth perform outright atrocities and even genocide, yet they are invariably considered the heroes.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Sephiroth of course. Bonus points for being a character who canonically wears leather pants. The entire story is focused on how wonderful a boy friend he is, even though he's a rather lousy one, and defending his actions in the game.
** Tseng also gets this, but to a lesser degree.

* MarySue: Julia in spades
** AntiSue: Julia has a lot of flaws designed to deny being a sue.
** BlackHoleSue: Everybody obsesses over Julia. Probably the biggest example is Yuffie, who allegedly is Sephiroth's closest friend, obsessing about how much Sephiroth should be with Julia instead of with Laura, despite him being perfectly happy in their relationship.
** GodModeSue: Julia has some of the most powerful magic in the world, and is physically able to keep up with super-human Sephiroth, surpassing everybody else in her class. No explanation on where she got these powers.
** JerkSue: The number of people Julia is nice to can be counted on one hand. At one point she says she has no problems killing people, and this is treated as a virtue.
** MaryTzu: Julia allegedly is a tactical genius. So is Sephiroth.
** RelationshipSue: With Sephiroth, obviously.
** SympatheticSue: Has tons of drama so that we're supposed to feel sorry for her.

* {{Wangst}}: Julia will go into full on depression when the story is lacking drama. Often on things that happened years ago.

[[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is one of the most popular Final Fantasy villains of all time. He's [[TheAce an elite soldier,]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds has a tragic story,]] [[Bishonen and he's very, very pretty.]] But what was his life like before the game began? Before he met Cloud and Zack? The aptly named Sephiroth Slave sets out to tell us.

* CombatPragmatist: Julia is perfectly willing to go for [[EyeScream eye-gouges,]] [[KillItWithFire fire-enhanced]] [[GroinShot Groin Shots]], hair pulling, anything to win. Worth noting that most of these attacks were in an exhibition match, and are generally considered illegal even in “anything goes” level fights.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu: Did you just knock out Hojo's [[OneWingedAngel invincible tentacle form]] with a fire extinguisher.

* ExpainsionPackPast: Julia somehow managed to be a prostitute for a year, and in an insane asylum for three years, given up for adoption, taken in by Tseng, taken back by her birth parents, and skipped a grade all before turning fifteen. Sometime during all this, she managed to obtain several powerful, mastered materia.

* ForTheEvuls: Hojo's Modus Operandi.

* HollywoodMedicine: What magical and regular medicine can heal at any given moment depends on how dramatic it will be.

[[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is one of the most popular Final Fantasy villains of all time. He's [[TheAce an elite soldier,]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds has a tragic story,]] [[DracoInLeatherPants and he's very, very pretty.]] But what was his life like before the game began? Before he met Cloud and Zack? The aptly named Sephiroth Slave sets out to tell us.

Shinra High doesn't so much end as [[DividedForPublication roll directly into it's sequel]], Shinra SOLDIER. Julia, Sephiroth, and the others have survived Hojo's training and are now rushed into military training to ideally become the new SOLDIER class heroes that Midgar desperately needs. Sephiroth and Julia exceed expectations, quickly ousting General Heidigger and becoming the new [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority General]] and [[NumberTwo Commander]] of the Shinra armies. They then lead Shinra to it's rise to power, [[BoringInvincibleHero effortlessly crushing all opposition]] [[CombatPragmatist in the most ruthless ways possible.]]

However, [[BigBad Hojo]] still has plans for our couple. He has begun injecting Sephiroth with [[PsychoSerum JenovaCells]], allowing [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]] to possess Sephiroth's body and try to kill Julia. Ultimately, [[DoomedByCanon Hojo succeeds in poisoning and murdering Julia]], ending the story right as Sephiroth heads for Nibelheim, and the beginning of the actual games plot.

The fiction is well known for several reasons. In addition to it's length, convoluted plot and the blatant MarySue qualities of Julia, it is a mouth piece for the [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Jenova Possession Theory]], which claims that Sephiroth was not the true villain of the series, but rather an innocent victim, being controlled and or commanded by [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]]. In addition to this, Sephiroth Slave claims to be an {{Otakukin}}, and that Sephiroth is her astral husband. Finally, it's famous for butchering nearly every character in Final Fantasy seven, and getting nearly every aspect of the story wrong.

* AmanIsNotAVirgin: Averted. Julia seems outright pleased by Sephiroth's lack of sex drive.
* Animesque: Julia attempts to portray the school as a wacky, violence-filled warzone with poisonous cafeteria food, like something out of RanmaOneHalf. It fails to translate into prose well.

* BFS: [[SignatureWeapon The Buster Sword]] is now standard issue for all Shinra grunts.
* Chickification: In addition to Tifa becoming TheChick, Julia herself manages to go through this, switching from a FauxActionGirl to a full fledge DamselInDistress after the Wutai arc.
* CombatPragmatist: Julia is perfectly willing to go for [[EyeScream eye-gouges,]] [[KillItWithFire fire-enhanced [[GroinShot Groin Shots]], hair pulling, anything to win. Worth noting that most of these attacks were in an exhibition match, and are generally considered illegal even in “anything goes” level fights.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Generally averted, as Julia often fights against men, but in the Wutai arc, she fights the two women guardians, and Sephiroth fights the three male guardians.
* DesignatedProtagonist: Julia and Sephiroth perform outright atrocities and even genocide, yet they are invariably considered the heroes.

** During the Wutai arc, Julia tortures both her victims due to minor slights. Gorki, for daring to call Sephiroth a girl, is tortured to until she screams, including cutting off both her arms and crushing her legs with Demi. Staniv breaks Julia's katana, so she paralyzes her [[EyeScream cuts out her eyeball and forces her to eat it]], and then mutilates her so she can bleed to death.

* ExpainsionPackedPast: Julia somehow managed to be a prostitute for three years, and in an insane asylum for three years all before turning fifteen.

* FauxActionGirl: Julia for the entire story, up until the Wutai arc. Before then, all her victories are either in practice, or due to luck, or the intervention of Sephiroth.

* FueledByLifeForce: Even though there's no mechanics for it, Julia will fuel any spell used to protect or heal Sephiroth with her life force instead of mana, due to ThePowerOfLove. This appears to accomplish nothing except to cause Julia to faint.

** Most notably, Julia is at one point poisioned. Days later, she loses most of her blood, which manages to drain her completely of the poison. Even ignoring the fact that she couldn't survive losing enough blood to remove the poison, by that time, it would have soaked into most of her organs and tissue.
* HypocriticalHumor: Unintentional. Julia mocks a character with a fear of needles for freaking out during a mako injection, noting that he reacted the same way that she had when it was her turn.

IforgotICouldFly: Julia often forgets that she's a powerful spell caster in possession of several of the most powerful materia in the world. During the defense of Shinra, she literally remembers that she has it halfway through the second day of being slaughtered by the enemy forces.

* BettyAndVeronica: Julia is Veronica to Laura's Betty. Later in the fic, their roles reverse.

* OmniDisciplinaryScientist: Despite how much effort FinalFantasyVII averted this, this story has Hojo as a master of medicine, technology, genetics, military training, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking blacksmithing.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Sephiroth in particular, will overract to any affront to Julia, while ignoring if the same thing happens to somebody he doesn't know. The epitome of this comes from when he hears a report of victim getting beaten to near death while walking home at night through a dark alley. He considers it the victim's fault for being dumb enough to walk through a bad part of town, but upon finding out that it was Julia, chews out Laura for saying the exact thing he was thinking a moment ago.

* RapeAsBackstory: Part of her ActionPackedPast, her father raped her as part of her training to be a prostitute.

* Wangst: Julia will go into full on depression when the story is lacking drama. Often on things that haven't happened in years.