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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-25 17:08:31 »I don't know how many conversations I've had about "Sephiroth clone/copy" but when i read what luksy wrote today, the penny finally dropped.
The word "copy" for us is seen the same as "clone", but this is not what the word means in the story. In this context it means "Project to make another Sephiroth-type person". As in, a process/project to "copy" what they did to create Sephiroth. It does not in ANY way refer to actual copies or clones, or even genetic material. Using the word "copy" really confuses this for a westerner, and I will have to see about using some different approach. As it is now, the word copy is always seen as synonymous with clone, as in genetics.
When you see "Sephiroth-copy" in game (and unfortunately the English localisation used clone too), you immediately think "Ah, a copy of Sephiroth" but again, that is not how it is intended. It simply means "those we tried to make the same as Sephiroth" (via Jenova cells, mako irradiation and so forth). Only Cloud succeeded in this, or at least, partially.
Oh damn, that IS a major context issue. Good on you (and Kaldarasha apparently XD) for figuring that out before release!