Fanfic / Shinra High Soldier

Cover art of Shinra SOLDIER created by a sporker

Sephiroth is one of the most popular Final Fantasy villains of all time. He's an elite soldier, has a tragic story, 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 Sephirothslave sets out to tell us.

Between the ages of 14 and 18 (2002-2006), Sephirothslave wrote her two stories 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 High School AU turns out to be her attempt to write the history before the story began.

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

Shinra High doesn't so much end as 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 General and Commander of the Shinra armies. They then lead Shinra to its rise to power, effortlessly crushing all opposition in the most ruthless ways possible.

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

The fiction is well known for several reasons. In addition to its length, convoluted plot and the blatant perfectionist qualities of Julia, it is a mouthpiece for the 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 Jenova. In addition to this, Sephirothslave claims that the character of Sephiroth was inspired by her archangel husband, who supposedly looks like him and shares his name. Finally, it is famous for butchering nearly every character in Final Fantasy VII, and getting nearly every aspect of the story wrong.

Sephirothslave returned to the series to attempt to rewrite it, but gave up after only making superficial changes to the first nine chapters. A sequel to Shinra SOLDIER, Silent Melody, was also abandoned after four chapters.

Conpare My Inner Life. A sporking of it in its entirety, as well as many other fanfics and essays of Sephirothslave, can be found here.

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The series consists of:

A-F

• Abridged Series: Shinra SOLDIER has one here.
• Aborted Arc:
  • We are introduced to two of Hojo's assistants, one of whom has feelings for him. The fic never addresses this again, and we never see them again.
  • Heidegger shoots Julia during the battle with Fort Condor. The fic never expands on this.
• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Yuffie gave Sephiroth an enchanted dagger that could cut through anything.
• Abusive Parents: Julia's parents have forced her into prostitution when she was younger and locked her up in a mental institution for three years. Her father beats and rapes her, and ultimately tries to kill her. Hojo has been physically and mentally abusing Sephiroth since he was born.
• A Day in the Limelight: The Turks get one chapter dedicated entirely to themselves.
• Adults Are Useless: The staff of Shinra High doesn't agree with Hojo's horrific treatment of the students, but doesn't do anything to stop him or protect the kids.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: A freshman in high school, Julia wears a halter-top, black leather miniskirt, knee-high black leather boots and spiked bracelets. Everybody else in the story wears normal clothes, except Scarlet.
• Afraid of Needles: Julia. Her fear comes and goes.
• After Action Patch Up: Julia and Sephiroth often end up in Midgar City hospital, mostly as a result of Hojo's abuses. Usually, the recovery is not glossed over, and the character continue to take part in conversations and encounters while hospitalized.
• After-School Cleaning Duty: Hojo gives his whole class the task of cleaning out his specimen cages as punishment for laughing at him.
• The Alcoholic: Reno is portrayed as such.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Averted. Both Laura and Aerith are looked down on for being cheerleaders by all male (and female) lead characters, with Yuffie distrusting Laura just for being a cheerleader, and Rude explicitly not wanting to watch a play because Aerith is in it.
• All Take and No Give: Sephiroth and Yuffie's relationship can be described as such, with Sephiroth being the taker. Yuffie worries about him, does what she can to make sure he's happy, gives him expensive gifts (an enchanted dagger that can cut through anything) and extends her financial and moral support to Julia as well (initially for Sephiroth's sake). Sephiroth takes Yuffie more or less for granted, an attitude that Julia would later emulate, and the relationship immediately grows distant the moment Yuffie leaves Midgar and cannot be of any use to them anymore.
• Altar the Speed: Julia and Sephiroth decide to get married two weeks sooner than they had planned after they realize Julia has gotten pregnant.
• Always Second Best: Julia, to Sephiroth. She doesn't mind - on the contrary, her idea of showing love implies a large degree of almost complete submission in everything.
• Animesque: Sephirothslave attempts to portray the school as a wacky, violence-filled warzone with poisonous cafeteria food, like something out of Ranma ½. It fails to translate into prose well.
• An Ice Person: Julia's limit break, Heaven's Judgment, summons ice daggers that get thrown at her opponent. Fittingly, as her personality shows her to be a cold and distant person.
• Archnemesis Dad: Hojo is this for Sephiroth. Julia's father also qualifies, until Sephiroth takes Julia away from him.
• Artistic License – Biology: Hojo ends up pumping ten 500 ml (5 liters/1.32 gallons) mako injections into his body one night. The average normal adult has roughly 5 liters (1.3 gallons) of blood in his body, meaning that he basically replaced almost all his blood with mako.
• Artistic License – Military:
  • Promotions are done by straight combat with no need to go through Officer school.
  • Sephiroth and Julia completely ignore the chain of command, and forge orders from the general with no comeuppance.
  • Boot camp is treated like it's high school, only with military themed classes.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The fic is packed with names such as Korokou and Nakahamou which appear Japanese, but have no meaning in the language.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Raw, one-on-one physical combat skill is the sole quality required to become the general of the entire Shinra army, by beating the previous one in the Challenges. Sephiroth defeats Heidegger to become the general.
• Attention Whore: Since Julia is an Author Avatar and Sephirothslave has admitted numerous times that she loves being in the spotlight, her main character often comes off as this. Julia Nakahamou claims to abhor attention, but constantly agrees to TV interviews even years after her biggest military achievement and invites the entire Shinra army to her lavish and expensive wedding.
• Audience Surrogate: By turns, Hojo, Zack and Laura. There are instances in which they channel the readers' reaction to Sephiroth and Julia's despicable behavior.
• Author Avatar: 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 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 hits him out of the blue in the eye with a marble, and her first encounter with Aerith is just Julia feeling smug that Aerith got hit by an ink balloon).
• Ax-Crazy: Hojo fits this trope perfectly.
• Bad Boss:
  • President Shinra allows Hojo to torture Sephiroth, Julia and the others because he wants them for his army. When Hojo murders two soldiers, a Turk and Sephiroth and Julia's baby, the only course of action taken by the President is to demote Hojo and spend two weeks without arresting the soldiers who obeyed the crazy scientist. His justification? He needs Hojo for the mako therapy. Worth noting is that this is an unintentional example on the author's part, as the main characters fail to see just how little President Shinra cares about them and consider him a benevolent, if somewhat dim-witted man.
  • Hojo's technicians are terrified of him, and are implied to be constantly abused.
  • Sephiroth and Julia are highly incompetent managers who are constantly disgusted by their subordinates and consistently display a hostile and haughty attitude towards them. In the end, this contributes to the death of their son Orion and friend Korokou, as Hojo can easily find twenty members of SOLDIER to act as a firing squad.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Hojo kills Sephiroth's wife and son, effectively breaking his spirit, and continues undisturbed to inject him with more Jenova cells.
• Bag of Holding: Julia, Sephiroth and Hojo all have one. Hojo can make a massive battleaxe appear from his!
• Battle Couple: Julia and Sephiroth.
• Beige Prose: A staple of the author's writing style.
• Berserk Button: So many people.
  • Julia: Any threat or insult to Sephiroth, or the implication that she's gay.
  • Sephiroth: Any threat or insult to Julia.
  • Hojo: Disrespect him in any way and he will torture the entire class.
• Betty and Veronica: Julia is Veronica to Laura's Betty. Later in the fic, their roles reverse.
• BFS: The Buster Sword is now standard issue for all Shinra grunts.
• Big Bad: Hojo. He wins.
• Big Fancy House: In the beginning of the story, Hojo lives together with Sephiroth in a mansion. Following an incident with her father, Julia moves in with them, implicitly without Hojo's consent. When Julia and Sephiroth get married later, they receive a large mansion as present from Shinra, complete with expansive grounds and a full staff.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Let's begin with Julia, a sadistic, petty and arrogant psycho stemming from a violent, murderous, incestuous father and a highly emotionally unstable mother. Julia's husband Sephiroth is a cold-blooded, amoral and sadistic killer. Julia's father-in-law is the insane professor Hojo, whose main hobbies involve torturing and experimenting on teenagers and chopping people up with his battleaxe. The only seemingly normal member of the family is Tseng, Julia's foster brother, although even he begins displaying sociopathic tendencies toward the end of the story.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: 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, whom she had dumped in the first place.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: The main characters are two self-centered young people who seem to hate everything but each other and who end up committing horrible crimes without ever being painted as in the wrong.
• Broken Bird: Yuffie has her country invaded and witnesses her mother being killed in a gruesome manner by her former best friends. The author tries to invoke this with Julia, but she is so unlikeable and arrogant that she comes off more as a Smug Snake.
• The Bully: 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.
• Bullying a Dragon:
  • Zack, fully aware that Sephiroth can and will beat him up for any affront, loves to antagonize him anyway.
  • The entire school likes to "stampede" Hojo on the way out of the building, despite the fact that he will sometimes retaliate by unleashing deadly monsters on them as part of a test.
  • When Hojo takes Sephiroth's infant son hostage with the intention of murdering him, Sephiroth keeps insulting Hojo all throughout the negotiations, which leads to Hojo ordering his soldiers to kill the baby.
• Butt-Monkey: Cloud, Aerith and occasionally Reno. Strangely enough, Hojo gets this treatment at times. It makes it harder to take him seriously as a legitimate threat.
• Calling Your Attacks: Julia calls out her Limit Break and the spells that she casts.
• Cartwright Curse: Laura and Julia, the two women Sephiroth becomes involved with, both die by the end of the story. Laura commits suicide in Shinra High and Julia is killed by Hojo at the end of Shinra SOLDIER.
• Cast from Hit Points: 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 The Power of Love. This appears to accomplish nothing except to cause Julia to faint.
• Character Catchphrase: Hojo uses the words specimen and insubordinate ad nauseam.
• Cheerful Child: Tseng claims Julia was this before being taken back by her biological family.
• Chickification: In addition to Tifa becoming much weaker, Julia herself manages to go through this, switching from a Faux Action Girl to a full fledge Damsel in Distress after the Wutai arc.
• Child by Rape: After Sephiroth is forced by Jenova to rape Julia, she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy, Orion.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: 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.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Sephiroth, Julia, Hojo and Zack all indulge in this at various points in the story.
• Color Motif:
  • The color silver appears numerous times in both stories: it's the color of the gym outfits from the special training course, the color of the tablecloths at Homecoming, of one of Julia's dresses and the cloth around her wedding bouquet.
  • Even more prominent is the color black. Julia rarely wears any other color.
  • Aerith is associated with pink, and even her cheerleading uniform has this color.
• Combat Pragmatist: Julia is perfectly willing to go for eye-gouges, fire-enhanced Groin Shots, hair pulling, anything to win. Worth noting that most of these attacks were in an exhibition match, and are generally considered forbidden even in “anything goes” level fights.
• Conflict Ball: 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 he won't sleep with her. Once Sephiroth is back with Julia, she commits suicide, declaring it's because she doesn't want to live without Sephiroth, even though she's the one who ended their relationship.
• Contrived Stupidity: This is the only way the author knows how to move her plot forward.
• Conspicuous Consumption: Sephiroth and Julia's wedding. They had a thousand guests and rented planes to get everyone there.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: President Shinra is perfectly willing to allow Hojo to do anything to Sephiroth and Julia as long as Shinra has to gain from it. He goes to such an extent that he punishes Hojo with a simple demotion for staging a mutiny and murdering a Turk, a First Class SOLDIER and Julia and Sephiroth's infant son.
• Crapsack World: In this story, President Shinra rules Midgar like a dictatorship and his employees are allowed to mistreat and even kill their children, the school system pits teenagers against one another in bloody matches, Hojo has free reign to run inhumane experiments on whoever he pleases, there is no hope and nothing to fight for.
• Creator's Culture Carryover: Detention and federal holidays are mentioned, despite this not being an AU story.
• Cruel Cheerleader:
  • Although initially portrayed as a sweetheart, Laura Summers later proves to be a manipulative, spiteful, selfish and shallow girl. Yuffie realized there is something wrong with her when she found out Laura was a "Varsity cheerleader".
  • Averted with Aerith, who is not written as being evil or mean, despite being a cheerleader. However, everybody still treats her as if she is.
• Custom Uniform: Julia has a custom-made bodysuit in black leather, with black leather gloves and boots. She also has a leather trenchcoat for cold weather.
• Darker and Edgier: Shinra SOLDIER is this compared to Shinra High. Both stories are considerably darker than the original game.
• Dark Secret: Julia's background. Her father forced her to become a prostitute.
• Death Is Cheap: 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.
• Death of a Child: Happens in Chapter 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.
• Delinquents: Reno, Rude and Zack form a gang and prowl around Midgar at night. Reno and Rude also neglect their studies, to the point where they are in their early twenties and still in high school. Reno also smokes, drinks and vandalizes school property through his pranks.
• Demoted to Extra: Zack is very prominent in Shinra High, but gets very little screentime in Shinra SOLDIER.
• Derailing Love Interests: Laura's personality radically changes the moment she is dating Sephiroth.
• Designated Girl Fight: Generally averted, as Julia often fights against men, but in the Wutai arc, she fights the two women guardians, and Sephiroth fights the two male guardians.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Did you just knock out Hojo's invincible tentacle form with a fire extinguisher?
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Julia dies in Sephiroth's arms after being shot by Hojo.
• Dirty Old Man: Hojo briefly cups Julia's breast after a torture session.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Julia and Sephiroth are big fans of this. In response to being attacked by half the football team, (even though the football players lost spectacularly) Julia and Sephiroth get revenge by blowing up the football field during a game, openly wounding players and spectators in the process.
  • During the Wutai arc, Julia tortures both her victims due to minor slights. Gorki, for daring to call Sephiroth a woman, is tortured until she screams, which includes cutting off both her arms and crushing her legs with Demi. Staniv breaks Julia's katana, so Julia paralyzes her cuts out her eyeball and forces her to eat it, and then mutilates her so she can bleed to death.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Sephiroth, Julia and Reno launch fireworks and Molotov cocktails onto a football field, injuring both teams, the spectators and damaging the premises. The way in which this is written is reminiscent of a school shooting.
• Doomed by Canon: We know from the beginning that Julia will die before the events of Nibelheim.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Julia launches a marble at Cloud's eye just because he was asleep in class and viciously chases Zack around with a sword because he accidentally entered the bathroom while she was taking a shower. Not only does she never get called out on her behavior, but everybody else either laughs at her antics or agrees with her.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • Laura kills herself after dumping Sephiroth, stating that she doesn't want to live if she can't have him. Staniv commits suicide by self-immolation after Julia tortures her and leaves her to bleed to death.
  • Julia attempts this when Sephiroth finds out she used to be a prostitute, but he talks her out of it.
  • Sephiroth attempts this after he is forced by Jenova to rape Julia.
• Drives Like Crazy: Sephiroth. Ironically, it is Julia's reckless driving in bad weather that would get him nearly killed.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • Zack dealt some pretty low blows to Sephiroth, helped Laura cheat on him and beat Julia within an inch of her life, leaving her bleeding and broken in a cold, dark alleyway to die. Afterwards, he is never regarded as anything more than an annoyance by Sephiroth and Julia and toward the end of Shinra SOLDIER, they are on civil terms, even though Zack has never apologized or expressed any remorse for his actions.
  • Reno and Rude were part of the group that beat up Julia, they too are forgiven without any apology. Reno actually becomes part of Julia's gang without ever addressing his part in the crime.
    • Reno does express reluctance in attacking Julia and he even whispers an apology into her ear when he grabs her arms. It is quite clear that he participated in the attack only because he did not dare to defy Zack, who would have otherwise beaten him as well, and he comes back later to drag Julia out on the main street so she could be found by someone.
  • An odd example exists between Hojo, Julia, and Sephiroth. While the general animosity continues to exist, individual acts seem to be forgotten within an hour of them happening. For example, Hojo is trying to kill them one moment, then they escape, and the next time they encounter each other, they are on speaking terms again.
• Emo Teen: Julia.
• Empathic Environment: Happens in Shinra SOLDIER during Korokou and Orion's funerals:
  • Korokou was (supposedly) a cheerful character, so the weather during the funeral is sunny and bright, even though the setting is the city of Midgar.
  • It rains heavily and it is cold during Orion's funeral.
• Every Car Is a Pinto: 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.
• Everyone Went to School Together:
  • 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.
  • 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)
• Evil Duo: Julia and Sephiroth, especially in Shinra SOLDIER.
• Evil Teacher: Professor Hojo teaches science at Shinra High. He also doubles as Sadist Teacher, both in the figurative way (by giving the students a pop quiz without him having taught anything the previous class) and the literal way (smacking their palms with liners wrapped in barbed wire, releasing monsters inside a classroom).
• Evil Former Friend: Julia and Sephiroth become this for Yuffie during the Wutai war.
• Expansion Pack Past: Julia somehow managed to be given up for adoption, taken in by Tseng's family, taken back by her birth parents, forced into prostitution for a year, spend three in an insane asylum and skip a grade all before turning fifteen. Sometime during all this, she managed to obtain several powerful, mastered materia.
• Eye Scream: Julia gouges Zack in the eyes during a sparring match. Later, she cuts out her opponent's eye and forces her to eat it.
• Extreme Doormat:
  • Julia is completely obsessed with and dependent on Sephiroth.
  • Julia, Sephiroth, Zack, Kokorou, Rude, and Reno all display this quality when dealing with Hojo, never doing anything to stop him from torturing them and even willingly driving to his lab so he can torture them some more.
• Family Versus Career: Julia reluctantly thinks about giving up her job to become a full time mother.
• Fantastic Racism: President Shinra and Julia call the people of Wutai heretics. Not helped by the fact that in these stories, the mainstream religion in Midgar seems to be Christianity.
• The Fashionista: Yuffie, out of all people. Julia also places great emphasis on her clothes.
• Faux Action Girl: Julia for the entire story, up until the Wutai arc. Before then, most of her victories are either in practice, or due to luck, or the intervention of Sephiroth.
• Final Solution: After killing Wutai's generals and ordering their army to attack the Wutai forces, Julia creates a magical barrier that surrounds the entire capital, and Sephiroth orders the Shinra scientists to toss crates full of omnivorous bugs inside the barrier, leading to everything and everyone being eaten or bitten by the insects. To finish the job, Julia summons Bahamut ZERO and wipes the capital off the face of the planet, killing everyone.
• Flashback Nightmare: Julia has one related to her time as a prostitute and her rape by Jenova-controlled Sephiroth.
• Former Teen Rebel: Julia, Zack and Reno qualify, especially after the time skip in Shinra SOLDIER. Julia is a stereotypical punk girl who talks tough, dresses unconventionally and doesn't shy away from participating in a deadly prank on her high school's football game. Zack prowls the streets of Midgar at night with Reno, the school's maladjusted prankster, who is implied to spend his time drinking, chain smoking and is failing all his classes. After they become Shinra employees, their lives are more stable: Julia is caught in the boring routine of her high ranking job, eventually settling down with Sephiroth and starting a family. Zack leads an uneventful life as a SOLDIER, and Reno gets rid of the aimlessness plaguing his life.
• For the Evulz: Hojo's Modus Operandi. Jenova as well, who's more interested in causing Julia to suffer than obtaining Gaia's energy or the Promised Land.
• Freudian Excuse: Julia and Sephiroth are implied to be the way they are because of the horrendous abuse they suffered under their parents. Notably absent for Hojo, whose evilness is vastly exaggerated.
• Friendless Background: Julia has no friends when she arrives at Shinra High.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Julia starts her life as the daughter of a very poor family and spends years of her teenagehood being completely terrified of her parents and allowing them to abuse her. Once she is drafted into the Shinra army however, she almost immediately becomes its amoral and arrogant Commander, with genocide and arbitrary executions (through torture) as her favorite solutions to problems.

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• Genki Girl: Yuffie.
• Giftedly Bad: Sephirothslave. She spent four years writing these stories and considered them her pride and joy.
• Goth: Julia, of the lone psycho variety.
• Gorn: Occasionally strays into this.
• Gratuitous French: Misspelled or misused every time.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Towards the beginning, Julia claims that her friends call her Megami, and sometimes responds with Japanese words like "hai." This quickly drops off though.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Julia is envious of Laura's good looks and jealous of her relationship with Sephiroth.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Professor Hojo and Julia are quick to react violently when they are annoyed.
• Happily Adopted: Julia, before her biological family took her back.
• Happily Married: Sephiroth and Julia are an odd example, as they have little chemistry together and a rather passionless relationship punctuated with some moments of Sickeningly Sweethearts.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Relatively minor example, but Julia will take advantage of any opportunity to point out that she is straight, and reacts violently to anybody suggesting she is gay.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Julia loves this trope more than Sephiroth.
• Hero Killer: Hojo is an odd example, due to the inconsistent characterization he has received. He alternates between this and being a Butt-Monkey.
• High School AU: Averted. Although the fic initially comes across as this, Sephirothslave intended it to be a prequel to the actual series.
• Hollywood Healing: What magical and regular medicine can heal at any given moment depends on how dramatic it will be. Most notably, Julia is at one point poisoned. 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.
• Hollywood Tactics: Sephiroth and Julia's military tactics only look good because everybody else's are worse.
  • A good example happens during a paint-ball training excercise. Sephiroth puts most of his forces into an ambush and then has a small force trick the entire opposing army into charging blindly. This only works because he's lucky his opponent is moving his entire forces as a single unit and not in smaller squads, and then is dumb enough to charge after a trap, instead of using his superior numbers as a systematic push.
  • 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.
  • Sephiroth is the only one who thinks of launching a counter-attack, instead of waiting for the enemy to regroup and rebuild.
• Hollywood Thin: Judging by the artwork drawn by Sephirothslave, Julia was this. She is often described as being slender, and every artwork of her shows her as being improbably busty.
• Hope Spot: Despite considering her to be his friend, Sephiroth gives Yuffie one before he kills her mother.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Poor Yuffie...
• Human Shield: A Jenova-controlled Sephiroth uses Julia's body to shield himself from Tseng's attack.
• Hypocrite:
  • Sephiroth complains that he had to kill Yuffie's mother, then smirks at a distraught Yuffie later in the same chapter.
  • See Protagonist-Centered Morality
• Hypocritical Humor: Unintentional. Julia mocks a character with a fear of needles for freaking out during a mako injection. She had reacted even worse when it had been her turn.
• I Call It "Vera": Julia has a naginata named Ketsuki and a katana named Tachi. The latter is an example of not doing enough research, as the katana and the tachi are two different swords.
• Idiot Ball: Everybody takes a turn holding this, mostly Sephiroth, Julia, Reno, Rude, Kokorou, and Zack, who will do whatever Hojo asks them to do, fully knowing that he wants to torture them.
  • The biggest example is Sephiroth, who – knowing that Hojo wants to inject him with more Jenova cells – willingly goes to him for mako injections, without even checking the needle.
  • 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.
• I Forgot I Could Fly: 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 Midgar, she remembers that she has it literally halfway through the second day of being slaughtered by the enemy forces.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Combined with a dose of Single-Target Sexuality. 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.
• Ignored Enamoured Underling: Kristen, one of professor Hojo's assistants, is madly in love with him, but he doesn't care about her at all.
• I'm a Humanitarian: A minor character from Shinra SOLDIER called Samuel considers himself "cannibalistic whenever the chance arose."
• Impractically Fancy Outfit:
  • Julia's wedding dress consists of "countless layers of the lightest silk." The problem? Her wedding takes place in a stone cathedral, at night, on the Northern continent... the coldest place on the Planet.
  • 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 much more difficult for her to be taken seriously in her job.
• Improbable Weapon User: The test subjects have to beat each other up with improvised weapons for one of their tests. For some reason, children's blocks and picture frames are the most effective objects.
• Informed Ability: 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 years old, heavily pregnant Julia will claim that she does not know what to expect regarding giving birth because her parents did not tell her.
• Informed Attribute:
  • Julia is allegedly kind, wonderful and wise, but she never demonstrates these qualities, instead being overly violent and short-sighted. We're also told that her friends call her Megami, but nobody does.
  • Sephiroth is supposedly the most desirable single male in Shinra High, but there is no evidence to support this.
  • Aerith is allegedly annoying and unlikeable, but in the only scene she actively participates in, she's very kind and helpful.
• Insane Equals Violent: Hojo.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • The author insists on calling her fanfictions novels.
  • Tseng is insistently referred to as Julia's foster brother in the narrative.
  • Julia is almost always called Sephiroth's girlfriend or wife, as well.
• In Spite of a Nail: Drawn attention to. Sephirothslave acknowledges that Wutai must survive Sephiroth's assault so it can be rebuilt for the proper game, but then has her avatar nuke it anyway.
• Interrupted Suicide: Julia wants to jump off the roof of Shinra High, but Sephiroth grabs her in time.
• Karma Houdini: Hojo defines this trope. Many other characters are never called out for their crimes either. Another major example is Zack, who is never punished for nearly killing Julia.
• Lack of Empathy: Julia, Sephiroth, to a sociopathic extent. Later in the story, Tseng and Reno begin to exhibit this as well.
• Laughing Mad: Sephiroth during the Fort Condor war.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Sephiroth and Julia are implied to be a chaste couple who still sleep in separate rooms after they have been living together for five years. The first time they have sex, Julia gets pregnant.
• Longest Pregnancy Ever: Julia ends up having this due to a number of mistakes made by the author regarding the timeline. Julia gets raped during the Wutai war (which lasted for six days), returns home and a few days after her return she somehow claims that a month has passed since the rape. She spends two weeks preparing her wedding, and another two on her honeymoon. Then, we get two headers which say "Four months later" and "Five months later" after which she gives birth. Depending on whether you believe Julia's time estimation as real or not, the pregnancy lasted for ten or eleven months.
• Loophole Abuse: Hojo requests permission to breed Red XIII with a human female. When he initially brings it up, he implies that he has a willing volunteer, but the request he gives President Shinra merely asks for him to "take [his] pick from among the Shinra Inc. roster." He uses this to force Julia into the program.
• Love at First Sight: 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.
• Love Triangle: Between Sephiroth, Julia and Laura.
• Mad Scientist: Hojo.
• Magic A Is Magic A: Averted. Exactly what can and cannot be cured by healing magic is very inconsistent. See Death Is Cheap and Cast from Hit Points.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Sephiroth is this during Shinra High. He spends minutes locked in Julia's embrace less than three hours after meeting her, shows her around the school, sits with her in the cafeteria instead of sitting with his friends... only to defeat her with unnecessary brutality during gym spar, leaving her terrified by his coldness, and ignore her afterwards.
• Mildly Military: In addition to the Military Maverick example below, things are no better once Sephiroth and Julia take command. Julia constantly looks down on her own troops, often citing them for their lack of discipline, but never making any attempts to correct this.
• Military Maverick: Sephiroth and Julia are perfect examples of this. They go out after curfew, openly disrespect their General and lie to President Shinra regarding military matters, mobilize troops by giving fake orders and take said troops into enemy territory without their superior's knowledge (as mere troopers, no less!). While they are severely punished for breaking curfew, they are rewarded and praised for mobilizing troops without permission because that move led to the utter annihilation of the enemy. Also, their defiance towards General Heidegger and lies they told to the President are simply ignored.
• Mind Rape: Jenova does this to Sephiroth.
• Mood Whiplash: The stories have a very unfortunate timing between dramatic and light hearted scenes.
• Most Common Superpower: Julia is often described as being slender, but her artwork shows her having a very generous bosom.
• 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.
• Must Have Caffeine: Julia supposedly cannot wake up without a "good, powerful dose of caffeine" and requested to have a coffee machine in her office.

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• The Neidermeyer: Julia is shown to despise the troops under her command, regarding them as unruly slobs who are beneath her and is glad to order them around and dump "menial labor" such as wiping out drug-dealers on them. She is also a highly incompetent Commander, leading her troops into an ambush during the Wutai war and nearly getting all of her scouting party murdered by ninjas. She also drove out of camp in a jeep without telling anyone where she was going, in order to get to a remote location and personally wake up a drunk Reno, when she could have delegated the task to someone else, as she should have had other, more pressing matters on her hands. The troops are never shown to be particularly warm towards her and in the end professor Hojo easily convinces twenty top soldiers to act as a firing squad and kill Sephiroth and Julia's infant son, proving that Commander Julia was not exactly adored.
• Neutral Female: After the Wutai arc, Julia becomes this. Despite all her powers, she no longer takes an active role in battles, even hiding under the bed at one point while the men fight Hojo.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Hojo successfully poisons Julia, and it appears that no one can cure it. However, while controlling Sephiroth, Jenova uses Julia as a human shield, and as a result of getting shot, Julia bleeds out the poison.
• No Dress Code: This is how Julia gets away with wearing Stripperiffic clothing.
• No Periods, Period: Julia's period is only mentioned once, at the beginning of the pregnancy storyline.
• Nouveau Riche:
  • Julia buys only designer clothes, has a custom leather catsuit made to serve as her military uniform and in spite of professing an aversion to spending money, she openly states that she has expensive taste and has a ridiculously expensive and lavish wedding to which she invites the entire Shinra military.
  • Sephiroth has shades of this as well, since upon taking Julia out for dinner, he tells her that she must order the most expensive thing on the menu, as opposed to letting her choose something that she liked.
• Obligatory Swearing: Sephiroth and Hojo are glaring examples, followed by Reno.
• Obliviously Evil: Julia and Sephiroth find absolutely nothing wrong with genocide and torture.
• Odd Friendship: Shinra High has the cool and collected Sephiroth and the bubbly, childish Yuffie. They don't seem to have anything in common and while Yuffie is devoted to Sephiroth and wants him to be happy, Sephiroth seems to tolerate her at best.
• Official Couple: Julia and Sephiroth. Once they become a couple, nothing short of Julia's death threatens their status.
• Offing the Offspring: Unsuccessfully attempted by Julia's parents and Hojo.
• Omni Disciplinary Scientist: Despite how much Final Fantasy VII averted this, this story has Hojo as a master of medicine, technology, genetics, military training, and blacksmithing.
• One-Winged Angel: Ironically, not Sephiroth, but Hojo will transform into his tentacled monster form when he needs to.
• Out of Character: EVERYONE.
• Overranked Soldier: Sephiroth and Julia become the General and Commander of the Shinra army at the ages of 18 and 16, with only a few months of training as grunts.
• Palette Swap: Korokou Nihau, a secondary character created by Sephirothslave, is (by the author's own admission) a blond Zack. His own rather bland personality is supposed to resemble Zack's.
• Parental Incest: Julia's father rapes her as punishment for refusing to have sex with a client.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Julia is able to level the entire Wutai capitol with her Bahamut ZERO summon, an action strangely reminiscent of an atomic bombing.
• Plot Armor:
  • Hojo is the most prominent example in both stories. Although his plot armor comes and goes, as the author deems fit, when he does have it he is invincible. He is the most powerful character in the series, easily surpassing Sephiroth and Julia combined, and even when he should be eliminated or at least fired, the author throws all logic and common sense out the window and brings some ridiculous explanation as justification for his invincibility and exemption from the rules. By the end of Shinra SOLDIER, he is able to kill twenty first class soldiers (Shinra's elite) without breaking a sweat and his body count includes the commander of the Shinra army and her infant son, a Turk and two other first class soldiers. He doesn't get more than a demotion for killing the Turk, the two soldiers and the baby, and is never shown receiving any punishment at all for killing Julia and the other twenty soldiers.
  • Julia has her lungs pierced by her own ribs due to a Demi spell. Broken, bleeding and believed dead, she is carried at a normal pace by Sephiroth to the Shinra encampment and placed inside the medical tent. Sephiroth spends some minutes staring at her and upon realizing that she was in fact still breathing, brings a scientist into the tent and they both begin healing her. Not only does Julia not die, but she recovers completely!
• Power Creep, Power Seep: 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.
• Power Level: Sephiroth reveals at one point that Julia is level 68.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Sephiroth in particular, will overreact 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 that very day.
• Psycho Serum: Jenova cells allow Jenova to possess Sephiroth, and make him try to kill his wife.
• Psychotic Smirk: Both Sephiroth and Julia exhibit this more than once.
• The Prankster: Reno is a dark take on the trope, as he is very fond of deadly and destructive pranks.
• Put on a Bus:
  • Ian is last seen being sent on a mission by Julia after the time skip. He is never heard of again.
  • A more nagging example is Julia's ridiculously abusive, Shinra bigshot father, who disappears from the story after being wounded by Sephiroth. This could double as a Plot Hole, as Julia becomes Commander of the Shinra army around six months after the incident, and spends most of her time in the Shinra HQ where her father supposedly works as well, and yet he is completely absent from the narrative.
  • Cloud is drafted into the army, made fun of for a few chapters during boot camp, and then never heard from again.
• Rags to Riches: Julia endures years of financial deprivation until she becomes the Commander of the Shinra army and begins to earn her own money.
• Rape as Backstory: Part of her Expansion Pack Past, she was forced into prostitution for a year. She was also raped by her pimp and her own father.
• Red Shirt Army: Despite being a Badass Army in the series, the SOLDIER forces and Shinra army in general are portrayed as helpless troops, constantly getting slaughtered by any enemy force they come across.
• Remember the New Guy?: Julia's sword, Tachi, which is important enough for her to be enraged by its destruction, is only mentioned once or twice, almost as an afterthought.
• Romantic False Lead: 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 Sephirothslave bores of the drama, Laura suddenly becomes a conniving, shallow bitch, so she can dump Sephiroth and he can go back to Julia.
• RPG Mechanics 'Verse: A rare atttempt at a serious version. The story references things like MP, inventory, Limit Breaks and levels.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: The author doesn't know the difference between than/then, principle/principal,allowed/aloud. Among many others. She also constantly misspells Nibelheim and Heidegger.
• Sadist: Hojo and Jenova are intentional examples, but Julia stands out as an unintentional one - she is not meant to be seen as a bad guy.
• Sanity Slippage: Sephiroth, toward the end of Shinra SOLDIER. The decline in his mental health is caused by Hojo murdering his son and friends and poisoning his wife. Not that he was a very mentally stable man to begin with...
• Second Love: Sephiroth initially begins dating and falls in love with Laura Summers, but after he catches her cheating on him, he breaks up with her and immediately begins a relationship with Julia, whom he will end up marrying.
• Series Continuity Error: The fics are supposed to line up with the game, but has characters who have not met at the start of the game interact with each other and generally makes a huge mess of the timeline.
  • Perhaps the most blatant is that Yuffie, canonically 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Julia towards Sephiroth. Reno and Ian appear to feel attracted to her, but she never has eyes for anyone other than Sephiroth.
• Sleeping Single: Sephiroth and Julia sleep separately even after living together for five years. It's only until they get married that they share a bedroom.
• Shed the Family Name: 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.
• Shipper on Deck: During Shinra High, Yuffie is this for Julia and Sephiroth.
• Ship Tease: The author vaguely hints at Korokou and Tifa during the wedding arc.
• Shoot the Messenger: Tseng shoots a messenger who merely informed them 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.
• Shotgun Wedding: Averted. Sephiroth and Julia were planning to marry anyways, and Julia's unplanned pregnancy only sped the process up.
• Show, Don't Tell: A very common occurrence in these stories. Sephiroth says Julia is the kindest, most wonderful person he knows, despite her being the exact opposite. Julia says Sephiroth is the most eligible bachelor in Shinra High, even though nothing in the story suggested he was popular or the center of female attention.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Julia.
• The Smurfette Principle: Julia is the only girl in the advanced SOLDIER training course and ends up being the only girl in the entire Shinra army.
• Sociopathic Soldier:
  • The entire Shinra army is comprised of this. The soldiers have no issue with murdering every single Wutai man, woman or child they meet, and are shown to not even notice the agonizing screams of the Wutai citizens slowly being eaten alive by insects, even though the Shinra army was right outside the city!
  • Hojo has no problems finding twenty soldiers who are not only willing to turn on their commander, but have no problem or even hesitation in killing a newborn child.
• Sour Prudes: Julia and Sephiroth. Although she accepts Sephiroth's kisses and hugs, the most Julia offers him voluntarily consists of smiles. They still sleep in different rooms after living together as a couple for five years, and look down on soldiers who visit brothels. Their own relationship is strangely devoid of passion and life.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: The day after Laura kills herself, Julia wastes no time in calling her names. The author tries to justify that by having Laura commmit suicide, a highly out of character gesture, for the sole purpose of spiting and throwing the blame on Sephiroth, thus giving Julia the perfect excuse to lash out at Sephiroth's first love.
• Spin the Bottle: The only time Sephiroth and Julia decide to actually go drinking with their friends, Sephiroth suggests playing this game. However, since Julia is the only women in the group, and is Sephiroth's girlfriend, it ends up creating some unintentional subtext.
• Sudden Name Change: When first mentioned, the empress of Wutai was called Shantaina. During the Wutai arc, however, her name inexplicably changes to Keara, most likely because the author forgot that she had already given her character a name.
• Standard Female Grab Area: Empress Keara of Wutai, a powerful summoner and warrior, is rendered completely helpless when Sephiroth wraps one single arm around her.
• Taking the Bullet: Julia does this for Sephiroth towards the end of Shinra SOLDIER. Reno does this for Julia, but his gesture does not get him any kind of recognition, not even a thank you.
• Time Skip: In Shinra SOLDIER, after the Challenges are over and Sephiroth and Julia become the rulers of the army, there is a time skip of five years. Aside them moving back in with professor Hojo and becoming bored with their daily routines, nothing much changes.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Both Sephiroth and Julia are much more unlikeable in Shinra SOLDIER than in Shinra High. Committing genocide and feeling smugly satisfied aftewards might have had something to do with that. Among many other horrible acts.
• Trauma Conga Line: Sephiroth and Julia's starts when Jenova takes control of Sephiroth and forces him to rape Julia. This is followed by the news that Hojo wants to mate Red XIII with Julia, causing much anguish to the couple. When Julia finds out she is pregnant and thus cannot participate in the experiment anymore, Hojo begins to stalk and attack them, culminating in him killing two of their friends and murdering their baby. Then, the professor slips more Jenova cells into Sephiroth's bloodstream, causing him to fall under the alien's control and hurt Julia some more. Afterwards, Hojo poisons Julia and is indirectly responsible for her getting shot. In the end, he manages to kill her and break Sephiroth's will to live.
• Uncanny Valley Makeup: Julia, who is described as having a paper-white face, wears black lipstick and black eyeshadow.
• Unfriendly Fire: During the battle with Fort Condor, General Heidegger shoots Julia in her thigh from behind Midgar's defenses, a gesture motivated by a growing feeling of personal insecurity and hatred towards her.
• Villain Protagonist: The fic co-stars Sephiroth, the villain of the main series.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: Averted. Sephiroth takes Julia to an expensive restaurant and after discussing work and other unnamed personal matters for a while, he goes down on one knee and proposes.
• War Arc: Shinra SOLDIER has two war arcs, one with Fort Condor and another with Wutai.
• We Used to Be Friends: Sephiroth and Julia used to be friends with Yuffie, but during the Wutai arc Sephiroth ends up brutally murdering Yuffie's mother in front of her, as retaliation for Julia's (apparent) death. This leaves Yuffie broken and devastated. Sephiroth and Julia, on the other hand, never think about her again after the war is over.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Julia has some of the most powerful materia in the world, including maxed out heal/cure materia, all three Bahamuts, and Knights of the Round. No mention is ever made to where she got them.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?:
  • A rare protagonist version. Hojo is openly torturing Sephiroth, Julia and others, and later explicitly trying to kill them. Even though they have him at their mercy repeatedly, they never once consider just killing him, even as they acknowledge that he will continue to hound them.
  • Jenova is allegedly trying to kill Julia, but is horribly impractical about it. Sephiroth is always described as carrying his sword with him, yet when she possesses him, she never tries to stab Julia, or simply strangle her with Sephiroth's super human strength.
• Workaholic: Julia's life revolves almost entirely around her job and she is at a complete loss about what to do with herself when she's on maternity leave. She has no hobbies and no friends in Midgar and is bored to tears when she's by herself with no paperwork to do. In fact, the only time of the day in which she's not whining is when Sephiroth brings her paperwork.
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Of the Type A variety, committed by Sephiroth and Julia in Wutai.
• Would Hit a Girl: Sephiroth, Hojo and Zack, all towards Julia.

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