Yes. Yes he is.
I take it I'm doing well?
The game is deliberately vague about whatever Hojo did to Cloud and Zack apart from providing the basics, both to let your imagination fill in the blanks, and to keep their T rating. However, given all the depraved stuff we get to see him do onscreen, which is bad enough, it's probably better that way.
The guy:
- Runs off with Lucrecia (who is also a completely insane bitch).
- Experiments on their unborn child. Said unborn child was conceived only for this purpose, and later became Sephiroth (insanity runs in the family, so it was inevitable).
- Fucks Lucrecia's shit up.
- Shoots Vincent in cold blood when he tries to get Lucrecia to back out on the project.
- Experiments on Vincent and then locks him in a coffin for thirty years.
- Shoots Gast in cold blood after he tries to bail out on the Jenova Project for Ifalna's and Aeris's sake.
- Experiments on a six month-old Aeris up until she was four years old and was able to escape.
- Experiments Ifalna to death.
- Is implied to have been the one that messed up the reactor to lure Sephiroth to Nibelheim where he would find out the truth.
- All that good stuff with Cloud and Zack, which involved lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of brainpresents.
- Kidnaps Nanaki and experiments on him.
- Tries to breed Aeris with Nanaki to have more Cetra to make Cetra babies that will last a long time and won't die as easily.
- Wears a speedo on a beach.
- Lies to Cloud for shiggles.
- Tells Cloud the truth for more shiggles, then refuses to give him a number when he hits rock bottom and is desperate enough for anything at all to call his own identity.
- Is totally fine with the fact that his magnum opus is going to destroy humanity, sees it as the succession of a superior species replacing the old breed, and resolves to help him along by trying to destroy Midgar in order to kill himself and enough people to provide enough of a boost to the Lifestream for Sephiroth to consume.
That took a while to type. Fingers, meng.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistNearly all of them, yes.
There are fan theories that he raped Lucrecia as well. I doubt this, though — not because it would be beneath him (pun not intended), but because she was totally on board with all that crap, so she was probably fine with having sex with him so they could make a baby they could inject alien viruses and mako and chemicals into.
The President let him get away with pretty much everything, too, because his research on the Cetra (and Jenova, by extension... kinda, anyway) would eventually lead to the Promised Land, which means lots of money for President Shinra. If Hojo asks for something, he's guaranteed to get it.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist... So the president gave him the degree from a cereal box?
edited 9th Jun '13 9:55:46 PM by Lilqueendaisy
LOVE IS STORED IN THE AXOLOTL!Your good day sounds good by the way Spaz.
Reading over the FG a bit, I realised something about Hojo.
He's very extreme chaos in his social Darwinism and desire to cleanse weakness.
In our heart, Mr. Ando will always be a penguin.Yep, Coras isn't coming out of this one with an intact psyche.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

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