This apartment is also full of 'Source' Items - Mind Source, Luck Source, Guard Source. These are items which permanently enhance the stats of a given character. I… haven't been using them, since I don't have a clear idea who I mean to be my 'endgame' party, if such a thing applies to this game, so they're just piling up in my inventory.
I'm sure it's fine to spend on whoever you like. It's not like the game's going to kill off important characters for real without provodong a mechanically identical replacement or anything.
You know it's weird that Cloud made SOLDIER at 16, right? Like, there have been a lot of subtle implications here and there that SOLDIER candidates are one of two things - non-Shinra individuals with particular potential who've been scouted (and potentially abducted?) by the Turks, and standard Shinra troopers who've trained/graduated to take part in the SOLDIER program. But Cloud can't really be either of those things. First, he's the one who went to Midgar and sought out Shinra, he wasn't scouted by the Turks or identified as having a particular potential. Second, he was sixteen when we saw his flashback with Sephiroth, and while there have been many times in history when armies did recruit 16-years old, this isn't really a feature we associate with modern volunteer armies, so it would be really weird if Cloud had become, like, standard soldier at 14 or 15 and then got all the way to the SOLDIER program through a graduation procedure.
Eh, it's animeland. You can have multiple PhDs at the ripe age of 14 and such. I'm sure it's nothing.
There's no answer. This doesn't make sense, and cannot have happened. It is a pure plot contrivance. You simply have to ignore it and roll with it.
Cloud called them on the phone.
Hmm. Barret is ranting about "How can he be laughing like that"
Horse laugh gets to everyone.
And it only leaves us with more questions.
Our man here just levitated up through the floor. He rose through the ship, hovered in place for a second, and then landed down on the ground.
Levitation I can explain easily. Our dude probably has the Float Materia. Being able to hover dramatically a few feet above the ground is a crucial supervillain skill, and he wouldn't be caught dead without it.
But phasing through floors? Is Sephiroth a ghost? I mean, that would explain some things - the reports of his death were not so exaggerated after all, and he merely stuck around after death. It would be an interesting twist, considering that 'lingering as a spirit to impact the plot' has so far mostly been a Good Guy feature in FF history - we have plenty of undead foes across the series, but their shtick doesn't tend to be 'what if Galuf's ghost was evil.'
But that sword in President Shinra's back looked very much physical. And all the reports we've had of Sephiroth since then have hinted as a man who is extremely powerful, but still bound by the physical limitations of human existence. He goes places, he is seen by people, he engages guards in combat (whom he trivially kills, but he has to fight them), he can be tracked in his movements…
This here is a lot weirder and more disturbing.
What I'm getting out of this section is that Sepiroth is a Dracula.