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Shinra High doesn't so much end as [[DividedForPublication roll directly into its 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 Heidegger 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.]]

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Shinra High doesn't so much end as [[DividedForPublication roll directly into its 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 Heidegger and becoming the new [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority General]] and [[NumberTwo Commander]] of the Shinra armies. They then lead Shinra to its rise to power, [[BoringInvincibleHero [[InvincibleHero effortlessly crushing all opposition]] [[CombatPragmatist in the most ruthless ways possible.]]
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* SpinTheBottle: The only time Sephiroth and Julia decide to actually go drinking with their friends, Sephiroth suggests playing this game. However, since Julia is [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only women in the group]], and is Sephiroth's girlfriend, it ends up creating some [[HoYay unintentional subtext.]]
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** In canon, Sephiroth was not raised by Hojo, and probably didn't even know he was his father. He had Jenova cells in him from birth and was never given any further Jenova cells or mako, and thought that Jenova was the name of his (human) mother, and had no knowledge of Cetra or alien parasites until the Nibelheim Incident. In this story, Hojo raises him, he already knows everything (which makes his mental breakdown at the Nibelheim Incident make no sense)
** Professor Ghast was in charge of the Mako experiments, not Hojo. Also they infused them with showers, not injections.
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* {Mundanger}: Sephiroth almost never comes close to getting hurt in any combat he's in, even taking on enemy snipers or monsters. Then Julia wraps their car around a lamp post, and Sephiroth nearly dies twice, once because they can't get him out of the car which is on fire, and then again because his injuries from the crash have worsened.

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* {Mundanger}: {{Mundanger}}: Sephiroth almost never comes close to getting hurt in any combat he's in, even taking on enemy snipers or monsters. Then Julia wraps their car around a lamp post, and Sephiroth nearly dies twice, once because they can't get him out of the car which is on fire, and then again because his injuries from the crash have worsened.

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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Julia crashes her car in sub-zero temperatures during a white-out level blizzard. Specifically, due to a slide, she hits a lamppost in a passenger-side door collision. Despite the temperature and precipitation, and the fact that neither the engine nor the gas-tank were anywhere close to the collision point, the car manages to catch on fire.



* EvilFormerFriend: Julia and Sephiroth become this for Yuffie during the Wutai war.



* EvilFormerFriend: Julia and Sephiroth become this for Yuffie during the Wutai war.
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* {Mundanger}: Sephiroth almost never comes close to getting hurt in any combat he's in, even taking on enemy snipers or monsters. Then Julia wraps their car around a lamp post, and Sephiroth nearly dies twice, once because they can't get him out of the car which is on fire, and then again because his injuries from the crash have worsened.

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* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Despite canon difference in ages and hometowns Sephiroth, Cloud, Rude, Reno, Tifa, Aerith, Zack and Yuffie all go to high school together. Meanwhile, all the staff of Shinra are teachers.

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* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether:
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Despite canon difference in ages and hometowns Sephiroth, Cloud, Rude, Reno, Tifa, Aerith, Zack and Yuffie all go to high school together. Meanwhile, all the staff of Shinra are teachers.teachers.
** A less literal example, every single important location in Shinra High or Soldier is a retread of an important location from FFVII (and virtually all locations are used)

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



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

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** Perhaps the most blatant is that Yuffie, canonically nine years younger than Cloud, and has never met any of the main cast before attends high school with him and is best friends with Sephiroth.

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** Perhaps the most blatant is that Yuffie, canonically nine five years younger than Cloud, and has never met any of the main cast before attends high school with him and is best friends with Sephiroth.Sephiroth.
** The end of the story leads into the events of Nibelheim. Cloud, Tifa, and Yuffie should be 16, 15, and 11 years old, respectively, but are all roughly 23.
** Rather than set out from Nibelheim to fulfill his dream of becoming a SOLDIER and ultimately failing, Cloud is already in Midgard and is drafted against his will.
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Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two novels Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boastiidiotbng a total of [[DoorStopper 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.

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Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two novels stories Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boastiidiotbng boasting a total of [[DoorStopper 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.
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Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two self-proclaimed [[SmallNameBigEgo "novels"]] Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boastiidiotbng a total of [[DoorStopper 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.

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Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two self-proclaimed [[SmallNameBigEgo "novels"]] novels Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boastiidiotbng a total of [[DoorStopper 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.
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* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The other locations on Gaia (including minor locations like Cosmo Canyon or Fort Condor) are inflated to be equal to Shinra in either resources, military or both, to try to give Shinra more challenging opponents, or to let Julia and Sephiroth import services and goods on a greater level.

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Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two self-proclaimed [[SmallNameBigEgo "novels"]] Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boasting a total of [[DoorStopper 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.

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Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two self-proclaimed [[SmallNameBigEgo "novels"]] Shinra High and Shinra SOLDIER, boasting boastiidiotbng a total of [[DoorStopper 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.


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** Even by the standards of this fic, Julia holds the ball tight when she decides to drive super fast in white-out conditions, rather than just turn the heat up in her luxury car, resulting in her crashing the car and nearly killing Sephiroth in the process.
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* {{Christianity}}: Julia says that she is a Christian, even though the story is supposed to take place in the Final Fantasy VII universe.
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* DeathOfAChild: Happens in Chapter 88. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of soldiers under Hojo's command. It is implied that all the children in the capital of Wutai are killed as well.

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* DeathOfAChild: Happens in Chapter 88.88 of Shinra SOLDIER. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of soldiers under Hojo's command. It is implied that all the children in the capital of Wutai are killed as well.

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* DeathOfAChild: Happens in Chapter 88. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of soldiers under Hojo's command. It is implied that all the children in the capital of Wutai are killed as well.



* InfantImmortality: Averted. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of soldiers under Hojo's command. It is implied that all the children in the capital of Wutai are killed as well.
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** When they know that an enemy army is going to move on their location in three weeks, the entire Shinra army just sits there and waits for it, instead of hitting the army in transit. (particularly since the army has to march through the Midgar Swamp, which provides an amazing choke point, complete with mobility impeding swamp and a deadly, violent, snake-monster). While waiting, they decide to withdraw all training from the new recruits, and instead give extra training to the first-class SOLDIERs. They make no attempts to up defense and engage the enemy inside the city, instead of beyond the impenetrable wall. Their tactic is to literally throw grunts at the enemy until they run out of bullets and cannonballs.

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** When they know that an enemy army is going to move on their location in three weeks, the entire Shinra army just sits there and waits for it, instead of hitting the army in transit. (particularly since the army has to march through the Midgar Swamp, which provides an amazing choke point, complete with mobility impeding swamp and a deadly, violent, snake-monster). While waiting, they decide to withdraw all training from the new recruits, and instead give extra training to the first-class SOLDIERs.[=SOLDIERs=]. They make no attempts to up defense and engage the enemy inside the city, instead of beyond the impenetrable wall. Their tactic is to literally throw grunts at the enemy until they run out of bullets and cannonballs.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Julia and later Laura. Julia is jealous of Laura's relationship with Sephiroth, whom she is infatuated with, while Laura becomes briefly jealous of Julia when she sees Sephiroth smiling and laughing with her.

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* ClingyJealousGirl: Julia and later Laura. Julia is jealous of Laura's relationship with Sephiroth, whom she is infatuated with, while Laura becomes briefly jealous of Julia when she sees Sephiroth smiling and laughing with her. Laura also gets upset that Sephiroth isn't paying attention to her for a few mere hours, while he's concerned that his friend (Julia) might be dying.

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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted. Julia seems outright pleased by Sephiroth's lack of sex drive.
** Due to inconsistent characterization, he was a HormoneAddledTeenager with his first girlfriend, Laura.



* ConflictBall: Laura is defined by this quality. She is introduced as a kind girl with a loving family so Sephiroth could fall for her, causing Julia to be unable to confess her feelings for him. The moment this is established, Laura is redefined as a selfish, shallow bitch who only wants Sephiroth because he does her work for her, so that Sephiroth can be with "the wrong girl." This leads to her breaking up with Sephiroth because [[AManIsNotAVirgin he won't sleep with her.]] Once Sephiroth is back with Julia, she [[SpurnedIntoSuicide commits suicide, declaring it's because she doesn't want to live without Sephiroth]], even though she's the one who ended their relationship.

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* ConflictBall: Laura is defined by this quality. She is introduced as a kind girl with a loving family so Sephiroth could fall for her, causing Julia to be unable to confess her feelings for him. The moment this is established, Laura is redefined as a selfish, shallow bitch who only wants Sephiroth because he does her work for her, so that Sephiroth can be with "the wrong girl." This leads to her breaking up with Sephiroth because [[AManIsNotAVirgin he won't sleep with her.]] her. Once Sephiroth is back with Julia, she [[SpurnedIntoSuicide commits suicide, declaring it's because she doesn't want to live without Sephiroth]], even though she's the one who ended their relationship.
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* SleepingSingle: Sephiroth and Julia sleep separately even after living together for five years. It's only until they get married that they share a bedroom.
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* HappilyMarried: Sephiroth and Julia are an odd example, as they have little chemistry together and a rather passionless relationship punctuated with some moments of SickeninglySweethearts.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Laura Summers is portrayed as a selfish, spoiled and incredibly spiteful person who [[DieForOurShip committed suicide]] seemingly for no other reason than to get back at Sephiroth, [[PlotHole whom she had dumped in the first place]].

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[PsychoExGirlfriend Laura Summers Summers]] is portrayed as a selfish, spoiled and incredibly spiteful person who [[DieForOurShip committed suicide]] seemingly for no other reason than to get back at Sephiroth, [[PlotHole whom she had dumped in the first place]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Laura Summers is portrayed as a selfish, spoiled and incredibly spiteful person who committed suicide seemingly for no other reason than to get back at Sephiroth, [[PlotHole whom she had dumped in the first place]].

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Laura Summers is portrayed as a selfish, spoiled and incredibly spiteful person who [[DieForOurShip committed suicide suicide]] seemingly for no other reason than to get back at Sephiroth, [[PlotHole whom she had dumped in the first place]].



* ClingyJealousGirl: Julia and later Laura.

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* ClingyJealousGirl: Julia and later Laura. Julia is jealous of Laura's relationship with Sephiroth, whom she is infatuated with, while Laura becomes briefly jealous of Julia when she sees Sephiroth smiling and laughing with her.

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* I JustWantToBeLoved: Combined with a dose of SingleTargetSexuality. Julia is friendless when she arrives at Shinra High, and craves a deep connection with someone, but her superiority complex and the perceived immaturity of everybody around her isolate and prevent her from forming meaningful bonds. Her special someone eventually turns out to be Sephiroth, and she emotionally latches onto him within minutes of their first meeting. Afterwards, he seems to be enough in terms of preferred human contact, as she never invests effort into forming any other kind of meaningful bond with anyone. Although she enjoys Yuffie's friendship, and especially the financial benefits of it, she does not put any effort into their connection and ends up pretty much friendless after she leaves highschool as a freshman.

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* I JustWantToBeLoved: IJustWantToBeLoved: Combined with a dose of SingleTargetSexuality. Julia is friendless when she arrives at Shinra High, and craves a deep connection with someone, but her superiority complex and the perceived immaturity of everybody around her isolate and prevent her from forming meaningful bonds. Her special someone eventually turns out to be Sephiroth, and she emotionally latches onto him within minutes of their first meeting. Afterwards, he seems to be enough in terms of preferred human contact, as she never invests effort into forming any other kind of meaningful bond with anyone. Although she enjoys Yuffie's friendship, and especially the financial benefits of it, she does not put any effort into their connection and ends up pretty much friendless after she leaves highschool as a freshman.


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* LoveAtFirstSight: It's implied that Julia becomes infatuated Sephiroth as soon as she sees him, and is willing to put her life in danger to save him only hours later. It's a rather unhealthy combination of lust and emotional desperation that makes her latch onto him. While he somehow finds her interesting from the start, he does not develop feelings for her until later in the story.
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* I JustWantToBeLoved: Combined with a dose of SingleTargetSexuality. Julia is friendless when she arrives at Shinra High, and craves a deep connection with someone, but her superiority complex and the perceived immaturity of everybody around her isolate and prevent her from forming meaningful bonds. Her special someone eventually turns out to be Sephiroth, and she emotionally latches onto him within minutes of their first meeting. Afterwards, he seems to be enough in terms of preferred human contact, as she never invests effort into forming any other kind of meaningful bond with anyone. Although she enjoys Yuffie's friendship, and especially the financial benefits of it, she does not put any effort into their connection and ends up pretty much friendless after she leaves highschool as a freshman.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Professor Hojo.

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* HairTriggerTemper: Professor Hojo.Hojo and Julia are quick to react violently when they are annoyed.

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* CheerfulChild: Tseng claims Julia was this before being taken back by her biological family.

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* CheerfulChild: Tseng [[ParentalSubstitute Tseng]] claims Julia was this before being taken back by her biological family.


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* RagsToRiches: Julia endures years of financial deprivation until she becomes the Commander of the Shinra army and begins to earn her own money.


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* ShedTheFamilyName: Julia insisted on using her foster parents' family name instead of that of her biological parents because she wished to distance herself from them as much as she could. It's never explained how come she was allowed to do that, seeing how her parents turned out to be very abusive and controlling people.


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* ShotgunWedding: Averted. Sephiroth and Julia were planning to marry anyways, and Julia's unplanned pregnancy only sped the process up.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of soldiers under Hojo's command.

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* InfantImmortality: Averted. Julia and Sephiroth's infant son is violently killed onscreen by a group of soldiers under Hojo's command. It is implied that all the children in the capital of Wutai are killed as well.



* LoveTriangle: Between [[TroubledButCute Sephiroth]], [[JerkSue Julia]] and Laura.

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* LoveTriangle: Between [[TroubledButCute Sephiroth]], [[JerkSue Julia]] and Laura.[[TheCheerleader Laura]].
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** Her military uniform could count as this: it is described as a single piece, custom made leather bodysuit. One of the sporkers of the story pointed out how impractical such an outfit would be not only for cold weather, but also for normal everyday actions like going to the toilet, because the bodysuit has to be removed almost entirely every single time. On top of that, wearing such a skin-tight leather bodysuit in front of her soldiers will generally make it [[RealityEnsues much more difficult]] for her to be taken seriously in her job.

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** Her military uniform could count as this: it is described as a single piece, custom made leather bodysuit. One of the sporkers of the story [[http://lian-hua.livejournal.com/32816.html pointed out out]] how impractical such an outfit would be not only for cold weather, but also for normal everyday actions like going to the toilet, because the bodysuit has to be removed almost entirely every single time. On top of that, wearing such a skin-tight leather bodysuit in front of her soldiers will generally make it [[RealityEnsues much more difficult]] for her to be taken seriously in her job.

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