Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-3581997-20150905032118/@comment-3581997-20150907063737

Sephiroth (overblown fan-bait that he is) is still reactionary. He believes he is the son of the perfect being, helping to wipe out the planet because that is what Jenova does and he wants to help his mother. That's it, he is essentially the world biggest and craziest momma's-boy. It's not his own idea and it's not specifically to cause others pain; It is all out of love, well love and a psychotic break, but love is still in there. There are numerous worse things he could be doing while he waits for that whole apocalypse thing to kick in, but he isn't doing them, cause all he cares about is the end goal of helping mommy. Compare that to say Final Fantasy VI's main baddy Kefka. At one point Kefka slips a extremely deadly poison into a town's drinking supply, why does he do this? Cause. It did not advance his plans to become a god at all he was doing it cause he wanted them to all die in a horrible manner, Sephiroth would have numerous chances to turn every single town he visit's to a graveyard but doesn't that wouldn't help his plans so he doesn't even think twice about doing something like that.

Professor Hojo on th other-hand. He find Jenova in the first place and decides to preserve it and do experiments on her He starts abducting civilians to do experiments on them this causing three of his colleges to ditch Shinra out of conscience, he tracks down every single one kills them, including two of them who got married to each-other and had a newborn baby, and claims their research as his own. He steals an employee's girlfriend, tells her to help him with his ultimate experiment, marries her, knocks, injects the fetus of his own kid with alien DNA that kills his wife but also traps her in a state of perpetual death/undeath and just for good measure when the ex-boy friend notices something is up he shoots said boyfriend point blank than uses the body as a test subject for genetic testing an locks the half-dead/half-monster guy in a basement and throws his wife-half alive body into a valley. He raises said kid as a ward of the state and only uses him as an experimental super-soldier never bothering to let him know who his father and two mommy's are. And that is all just the pre-game stuff. During the game he has two of your party mate's abducted as they are both the last of their kind and the firs thing he does with them in an effort to see if there are compatible life forms by locking them in a cage and seeing if they will either kill or breed with each-other (no he doesn't seem to care which). He continues to point the party in the direction of Sephiroth so the main character who is a genetically imposed slave to him can play his part in Sephiroth's grand plans. He tries to awaken several giant monsters set on destroying humanity. Eventually he even opts to wipe out his own employers by draining all the power from a metropolis and shooting it all at the thing coming to kill them, which he knows will only supercharge it.

And why? Why is he doing all this? Cause he wants to see what will happen that's why.

Sephiroths ends lives, Hojo destroys them. Sephiroth has an end goal, Hojo just wants to see what will happen. One is ending lives are part of his grand-purpse in life, the other is doing it on a whim.